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*** This dataverse contains the files needed to replicate the analysis in "Trivial Tripwires? Military Capabilities and Alliance Reassurance,'' Brian Blankenship and Erik Lin-Greenberg, Security Studies.
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*** Created: 9-26-21
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*** NOTE: any questions, please contact Brian Blankenship, bxb731@miami.edu, or Erik Lin-Greenberg, eriklg@mit.edu.
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This file is the ReadMe for the replication package of our Security Studies article. The Dataverse page contains the following files:

- ReadMe.txt. This file.

- Reassurance_Replication.R: an R script file that uses Data.csv and runs the analysis to recreate the tables and figures

- Data.csv: the comma-separated values dataset that can be used to replicate the tables and figures 